Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
ALAIN BADIOUWhat kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics…that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid.
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Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is typically in keeping with what Marx regarded as the principal alienation of capitalism: the primacy of things over existence, of commodities over life and machines over workers
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What is the world like when it is experienced, developed and lived from the point of view of difference and not identity? That is what I believe love to be.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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